As a subsriber to Ships Monthly i noticed a story about P&O Ferries and what effect the financial crisis in Dubai would have on them via their owners DP World.

My question has nothing to do with that, however the article did have one paragraph relating to the Pride of Brugge/York doing the Hull-Zeebrugge route. It said that plans to replace them have been put on hold. So my question was, do any of you know what plans they were?

Were they plans for ferries for that route? Or replacements for the ferries on the Hull-Rotterdam route, enabling the Pride of Hull/Rotterdam to move onto the Hull-Zebrugge route?